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  1. Springing Back on Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score · · Score: -1

    Springing back
    Like applejack
    The aftershave that
    Packs a smack
    Burma Shave

  2. Restated: on How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes · · Score: 1

    If you're going to live the life of a sheep,
    Never pondering the wide or the deep,
    We don't want to hear you, sad little creep,
    When they come with the shears in your sleep.

  3. The only thing more reprehensible on How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . .would have been a political career.

  4. I usually summarize your point as: on Winners and Losers In the World of Interfaces: 2013 In Review · · Score: 1

    "People don't scale."
    Or at least what I think is your point. Regret if I've maimed it.

  5. "$1,474?" said the Federal Government, on Wisconsin Begins Using Cheese To De-Ice Roads · · Score: 0

    "Are you sure that's not just a rounding error?"

  6. winners: Emacs users on Winners and Losers In the World of Interfaces: 2013 In Review · · Score: 1

    Same great interface as it ever was, in text mode or graphical.

  7. Re:The real winner in the world of interfaces: on Winners and Losers In the World of Interfaces: 2013 In Review · · Score: 2

    So you're saying that Oracle is tantamount to the government?

  8. Re:To blame on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    +1 gazillion or so.

  9. Re:Yes, because nothing is ever your fault on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    Since you ask, probably around 2005, when W got a bollocking for trying to do something, anything about Social Security. I was all: "We may be more jacked than I had thought."

  10. Re:To blame on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    Coming up on the tenth anniversary next Summer.

  11. Re:Yes, because nothing is ever your fault on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    Wilson merely planted the seeds, and liberalism insists we judge him for his swell intentions, not the wretched results of his acolytes.

  12. Re:My Anecdote Does Not Support Assertion on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    Because his actual age is 39.

  13. Re:Yes, because nothing is ever your fault on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    We must circle the wagons and offer excuses for tompaulco's anti-social behavior. Blame Slashdot? No, let's go with a general Bush-blame.

  14. . . .is to self-empower, while assuaging guilt.

  15. It takes an adult on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    . . .to admit to lousy parenting and invest personal time in the children.

  16. You can. . . on Developing Games On and For Linux/SteamOS · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . .but only if you're going to run them within a BeOS VM on Linux.
    Sorry, I don't make these rules; I just enforce them.

  17. Re:Richard Stallman endorses Gamemaker on Developing Games On and For Linux/SteamOS · · Score: 5, Funny

    It Emacs me sick.

  18. There is amateur, and there is pro on Prime Minister Wiretapped — Vast Corruption Upending Turkey's Government · · Score: 1

    When you're a pro, you just delegate the counterfeiting to "Zimbabwe" Ben Bernanke, or Janet "Weiss" Yellen.

  19. Re:Oh, come on, man on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 1

    That line made the play.

  20. Oh, come on, man on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 2

    It's all about da skillz. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist. MOAR GRAPHS!

  21. Sahib on Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs · · Score: 1

    s/A/H1B/

  22. Re:Canned Conservative Response Already Ready on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    No it's the fact that ManBearPig & ilk have been repeatedly shown as frauds that undermines all this hooey.

  23. *sniff* on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I feel. . .so. . .loved.
    Thank you!
    If only this fraud wasn't getting buried by glaciers.

  24. Re:Canned Conservative Response Already Ready on Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    As though there was anything unpolitical in all this Anthropogenic Global Climate non-Constant Carbon Warming Change Variation Offgassing.

  25. Amish on Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? · · Score: 2

    Actually, the obvious answer is that you don't have a choice.

    There is always subsistence farming.